Welcome to our page dedicated to Common Sense Quotes! Common sense is a valuable trait that guides us in making rational decisions and understanding the world around us. It’s often said that common sense is not so common, but the wisdom found in these quotes will remind you of its importance in our daily lives. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, a fresh perspective, or simply some thought-provoking words, you’ve come to the right place.
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Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That’s why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It’s the number one qualification. Robert Gottlieb
If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. Maya Angelou
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice? Eliyahu Goldratt
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense. Hack Wilson
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. Derek Bok
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. William J. Clinton
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. Angelina Grimke
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. Vikas Swarup
I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It’s not extreme; it’s common sense. We need to secure the border. Carly Fiorina
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. Helen Gurley Brown
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Patrick Lencioni
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold
Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego. Henry Sy
The truth of anything doesn’t matter anymore. What’s right doesn’t matter. What makes economic common sense doesn’t matter. I’m blue in the face over it. Rush Limbaugh
What seems cruel and heartless to one is common sense for another. Julia Hartley-Brewer
We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense. Lois Frankel
It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn’t even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. Carolyn McCarthy
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. H. L. Mencken
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. Jeannette Rankin
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense. Richard P. Feynman
It’s time for some common sense from federal agencies. Sam Graves
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense. Ben Carson
Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense. Eliyahu Goldratt
The Fair Elections Act in its final form will require every single voter to produce ID showing who they are before they vote. Away from the noise in political Ottawa, everyone understands that this is common sense. Pierre Poilievre
Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes
I have way more bravery than common sense, but you always assume things are going to be so difficult, and then when you’re actually faced with them, you prevail. It’s human nature. Annabelle Wallis
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. Charles Baudelaire
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. Joyce Meyer
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. Noam Chomsky
It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense. Linda McMahon
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense. William Morris
My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life. Jurgen Klopp
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. Catharine Beecher
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet. Queen Rania of Jordan
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. Baron d’Holbach
Romantics consider common sense vulgar. Mason Cooley
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline. William Hague
With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it’s common sense when you’re raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older. Eric Church
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Successful investing is all about common sense. John C. Bogle
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. Giorgio de Chirico
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion. David Packard
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Henry Ward Beecher
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
Common sense is calculation applied to life. Henri Frederic Amiel
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is common sense isn’t common practice. Stephen Covey
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. An Wang
If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate. Viktor Orban
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. Baron d’Holbach
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. Barbara Jordan
Common sense is the genius of humanity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Samuel Butler
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Cat Stevens
I like Burton Malkiel’s ‘A Random Walk Down Wall Street.’ He comes to the same conclusion that I do – that indexing is the way. My ‘Little Book of Common Sense Investing’ says pretty much the same thing. John C. Bogle
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. John Mortimer
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense. Dalai Lama
With age comes common sense and wisdom. Nas
The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was that, a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense. MS Dhoni
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate. Katharine Hepburn
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is very uncommon. Horace Greeley
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Leonardo da Vinci
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued ‘Common Sense,’ advocating independence from Great Britain. Mike Crapo
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. David Mamet
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst. Joan Crawford
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure. Marilyn Ferguson
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. George Jean Nathan
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens. Alan Watts
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. George Berkeley
I liked Trump’s honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn’t realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense. Mark Cuban
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein
Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn’t require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live. Harley Pasternak
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. William Inge
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. Oscar Wilde
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart. Nicole Polizzi
I’m not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense. Steve Harvey
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. Clive James
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. Norman O. Brown
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Josh Billings
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. Robertson Davies
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings